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...electrified by the screaming voices of Southern Californian maniacs. It was like all the crazy things you've heard about the people of L.A. rolled into one aggressively insane crowd. Firecrackers exploded a few feet from the crowd, some right in the crowd. Nobody seemed to mind. The bridge shook under the weight of the people. Across the street from the Holiday Inn, hundreds of people camped out on the lawn of a McDonald's. Hundreds more balanced themselves precariously on a railing at the top of a six-level parking garage. Others took the elevator to the roof...
...usual, Borg confined his pyrotechnics to shotmaking, not shouting. He needed all his guile and gifts to reach the finals in a five-set match against Jimmy Connors. Turning back the clock to his glory days, Connors, 28, played with a fury that shook Centre Court. He pounded Borg with supersonic ground strokes, winning the first set 6-0 and the second 6-4. Borg rallied to take the next two sets. Then, in the deciding set, both men lifted their games to the sublime. In the third game, Borg had four chances to break Connors' serve; each time...
...debate in the House of Representatives was the angriest in ages. Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas shook the rafters with an accusation that the Reagan Administration wanted Congress to "lie down submissively" and let it "dictate every last scintilla" of the 1982 budget. Republican Leader Robert Michel blasted back that the only amendments the majority Democrats wanted to let his party offer to the budget bill were "bastards of the worst order for which we disown any parental responsibility." The vote, on a key procedural test, was suspensefully close: 217 to 210, with 29 Democrats breaking party ranks...
...nausea as I think of the policeman coming to get me in my room and telling me that my sister was in Cambridge Hospital. I remember, hours later, shivering in thin jeans and a t-shirt in the hospital's dingy waiting room when Archie Epps walked in and shook my hand...
...shook his walking stick in a menacing way and said, 'Well, if I had my way, they'd be taking away the degree you already have.' I was not, in my college years, well regarded...